Accessibility to affordable drugs is a matter of life and death

MY cancer was diagnosed as Stage Four in April 2021. As if the diagnosis was not bad enough, the treatment cost that followed was just as agonising as the treatment. The letter “Fighting for affordable medicines” (Views, The Star, Dec 14) resonates with the hopes of many cancer patients, like me.

Initial investigations to be carried out on the primary site of the tumour at the public hospital were met with long queues. But it was imperative that the test results be known ASAP to help the specialists zero in on the appropriate treatment. Cancer won’t wait.